The EU commission has published attended White Paper on politics of the transports



Today the EU commission has published attended White Paper on the politics of the transports that, as it suggests to the title "Transports 2050", constitute a strategy of wide breath that the objective has to create a system of transports in a position to increasing mobility of the passengers and the goods, to remove the main obstacles in the main regions, of feeding the increase and the occupation let alone contributing to reduce considerably the dependency of Europe from the oil imports and reducing the carbon dioxide emissions in transport of 60% within 2050.

The main objectives of the plan are the exclusion of the cars to traditional feeding in the cities, the use pairs to 40% of sustainable fuels to lowland carbon dioxide emission in the aeronautical field and the reduction at least 40% of the emissions of the marine transport.

For the travels inter-city of medium range of passengers and goods the transfer of 50% of the transports from the transport on rubber to that on track and for fluvial way (within 2030 30% of the transport of goods on rubber is previewed will have to more pass to other ways of transport as the navigable railroad and internal ways and of 50% within 2050; within the 2050 majority of the transport of passengers in the medium range, from 300 km and beyond, will have to happen on track). Moreover within 2020 it will have to be established a system of European information on the multimodali transports, with a system of management and payment it is for the passengers who for the goods, and within 2030 will have to be realized a net of corridors of transport totally functional and which extended in all the EU that assures infrastructures for a efficient transfer between the transport ways (net TRIES), in order to succeed in therefore within 2050 to have of a net to high ability to elevated quality.

The objective is also to connect within the 2050 all the airports of the central net to the railway net rather to high speed and to assure a sufficient connection of all main the marine ports to the railway system goods and, if possible, to the system of inland navigation.

Objective of the EU commission is also to pass to the full application of the principles "who uses wage" and "who pollutes wage" and to the engagement of the private sector to eliminate the distortions, to generate profits and to in transport assure the financing of the future investments.

For the travels to long distance and the intercontinental transport goods the continuation of the dominance of the transports is previewed airplane and via ship that, thanks to new engines, fuels and systems of management of the traffic, will increase the efficiency and will reduce the emissions. The fuels to lowland carbon dioxide emission in the aeronautical field will have to arrive to 40% within 2050; moreover, within 2050, they will have to be reduced of 40% the emissions EU of co2 deriving from fuel of marine use.

It is previewed also within a 2020 complete modernization of the system of European air traffic control that realizes the European only sky and is in program the adoption of intelligent systems of management of the transports to earth and in sea (for example ERTMS, ITS, RIS, SafeSeaNet and LRIT1) and the collaboration with international partner international and organizations as the ICAO and the IMO in order to promote the competitiveness of Europe and the objectives of climatic order world-wise.

For the city transport the programmatico document more establishes a decided passage towards cleaned cars and fuels with the abandonment in the order of 50% of the motor vehicles to conventional feeding within 2030, excluding them gradually from the cities within 2050.

"Transports 2050 - the vice president of the Commission, Siim Kallas has explained, responsible for transport - constitute a roadmap for a field of the transports competitive in a position to increasing mobility and reducing the emissions. We can and we must make both the things. The wide diffused conviction for which it would be necessary to reduce mobility in order to fight the climatic change simply is mistaken. Of the competitive systems of transport they are vital for the ability to Europe to compete in the world, for the economic increase, the creation of places of work and for the quality of the daily life of the people. To reduce mobility is not an option, neither is to maintain the status quo to it. We can interrupt the dependency of the system of the transports from the oil without to sacrifice of the efficiency and to compromise mobility. We can earn on all the fronts".

Commenting the initiatives for the marine-harbour field previewed from White Paper, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has evidenced as in the document, for that it concerns to the harbour services, the EU commission announcements a general review of the restrictions and, for the pilotage, previews the institution of a system for the concession of Pilot Exemption Certificates (PEC) in the communitarian ports. The association of the European ports has remembered that this process already is started at the beginning of this year with a first round of consultations of the Member States and with the preparation of studies on the harbour job and the PEC.

Moreover ESPO has found as the objective of the White Paper for that it regards the financing of the ports is that to increase to the transparency winding down the threshold of the general directive on the transparency. This - it has observed the association - would have to contribute to clarify the destination of the financings publics for the various harbour activities to the aim to avoid distortions of the competition. ESPO has remembered that the services of the European head office on the Competition are about to starting a study on the financing of the ports and that also the European Parliament has commissioned a relationship on the aids of State in the ports. However ESPO has found as it is not completely clear if to conclusion of this procedure they will be defined or less lines guide on the aids of Been about to the ports, even if White Paper announces that, if necessary, lines will be published guide that they for infrastructure supply clarifications in matter of public financing for the various modalities of transport and of transport.

"In general terms - the general secretary of ESPO, Patrick Verhoeven has declared - the approach of White Paper is positive and sure we receive with favor the intention to return the procedures more efficient than planning of infrastructures. For that it regards the ports, many of the announced initiatives are already in some way in yard and correspond up to our expectations. There will be however to make a groundbreaking analysis of all the proposals in order to reach in a near future to a formal answer".